Health

Today, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Diane Savino introduced a bill that would create one of the nation's most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs. If passed, …

100 years after the Triangle fire, we still hear the same rhetoric whenever reformers seek to use government to businesses act more responsibly.

BPA is only one of dozens of estrogen-mimicking chemicals in the American food supply. Mix up a few of them through a lifetime and you may end up with …

If you live in a state with a Republican governor tell him to stop playing politics with healthcare for poor and working class people.

On March 1, Congress failed to avert the sequestration cliff. Drastic cuts to health care, infrastructure, environmental protection, education are occurring. Why? An examination of the cause of this …

American Jews have been suckered into supporting Israel in unthinking ways.

Equal justice under law? Not according to Mike Lofgren.

New York City's teachers union uses Chicago as an example in reforming its labor movement.

While we focus on the war being fought overseas, there is an equally brutal battle being fought behind the closed doors of American homes.

In this series, author Patricia Hynes features the voices of soldiers and veterans from armed conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries, voices whose moral fiber and clarity were …